Comic Strips on WordPress.com (retired)

The Comic Strips feature is no longer available on WordPress.com as the Panel theme has been retired.

The Panel theme on WordPress.com has some special features specifically geared towards publishing a webcomic.

The instructions from this guide are referring to the WP Admin dashboard. You can get to this dashboard by adding /wp-admin to the end of your site’s url (e.g.: example.wordpress.com/wp-admin)

Comic Navigation

Your users can easily read through your comics by using the navigation buttons underneath each comic. They’ll have easy access to the beginning of your strip or to the latest entry, and they can instantly load the next or previous installment by using the left (←) and right (→) arrow keyboard keys.

Front-End Uploading

Panel allows you to upload a new strip just by dragging and dropping it onto your site. The image will upload, and you’ll have a chance to add a title, categories, and tags. After that, just click Publish to update your site with the new comic.

Here’s a video showing how to drag and drop comics from the front end of your site: